Read his book, The Blonde Knight of Germany. Fantastic read and shows how his one true love (Ushi) motivated him through 10 years in wrongful Soviet captivity.
GERMANEN&WIR HEERES HELDEN TROE RITER LÜFTRIZAR,HELDEN TROI FÜR FATERLAND, VOLK,NI FERGESEN FERATEN OICH,WIR HEILIGEN ROMDEUTSCHES REICHT =SCHWEIZ&ÖSTERREICH&GERMANY&PROISEN ,WIR NOCH FON ACHE WIE FENIKS,ERWACHEN DEUTSCHE WO LEBEN CELTEN ALPIGOIZI DEUTSCHE VOLK ALLIANZ GRÜNDEN UND ALLE DEUTSCHE KOMEN ZUM HEIMAT ZURIK,BESARABIEN,WOLGA,UKRAINE, ASIA,DEUTSCHE SIE BRAUCHEN ETZ SEINE LAND.
What impressed me is the fact, that he fought in the East, West, and the South. One might say, it was easier in the East against the Russians, but he had equal success against the Western forces. He was just an incredible fighter pilot.
Some more thing about chivalry: Flying with 1000 bombers at night with the designated goal to set an entire city ablaze to terrorize the population into submission is truly the most chivalrous thing you can expect from the Anglo's
If the stupid Adolf Hitler had listened to Galland and sent the finished Me262 planes into battle, we would be living in a completely different world now. The stupid Hitler insisted on jet bombers instead of the M262 and came up with the project in late 1944 when all resources were gone. You can't trust a corporal for big wars, especially if he's stupid.
Couldn't quite make it out but it seemed he thought that killing prisoners in camps didn't make much sense from a utility standpoint as they're better used for work. He looked unaware that it actually went on did he not?
Sad this interviewer is a closet nazi and do such a bad interview. but still thanks for this, but i have downloaded this and gonna reupload it without the nazifanboying and denying of terrible things lol!
Great li'l series, though I would've appreciated had Part Three just stuck with the [later] exploits of Galland, showcasing a more in-depth conclusive timeline into not only amongst _his_ comrades during his brief tenure with JV 44, but as well, how his fame after the war gathered momentum thereafter, towards becoming one of the most acclaimed living legends in the recent world of aviation.
A man with lots of spine and character - during his time in the Luftwaffe, as Soviet prisoner of war as well as officer with the reconstituted German Air Force. He was never one going with the stream, he stood up for his principles and was ready to take the the consequences. Respect "Bubi"! Thanks for the video!
He was a Nazi there to enslave us like all of them. What he would have done had they won the war one shudders to think. I do not subscribe to this we are all friends now and treating it as if it was a great sporting event. He did treat Bader well ensuring that his tin legs were parachuted in, but being Jewish, I can never feel an affinity with these people. They all got off far too lightly for what happened.
The first and perhaps only combat pilot to have a cigar lighter and a holder installed in a combat aircraft ( his ME 109). I always wondered if he moved them over to his ME 262....
. When Galland saw how badly burned Steinhoff was he requested his friend be allowed to die. He pulled through, his facial reconstruction was finalised in England, where the like of Archie McEndoe and the Guinea Pig Club had pioneered facial reconstruction. He finally got his eyelids back some years after the war.
Ich habe sein Buch "Die Ersten und die Letzten" 1972 geschenkt bekommen. Er war wie Marseille Hugenotte. Fliegen lernte er auf der Wasserkuppe in Hessen. 👍👍👍
As Gunther (Rall) always said, we (the germans) weren't better pilots than the allies, we just had more targets. So no need for inferiority complexes here.
Imagine rocking up to a flying school in West Berlin in the 70s and being introduced to your flight instructor, Erich Hartmann. Today's lesson is the boom and zoom.
Great pilot and gentleman why the interview had to gravitate to the concentration camps makes little sense these young German pilots were fighting for their country no different than any 18 year old and had no clue on that issue.
Galland’s account of him hanging his decorations round a clock in his office and having a couple of lights trained on it is both very funny and a telling comment on Goering insulting him and his fellow pilots. A true professional and not a yes man.
The way Bader’s last flight ended up is intriguing. If a German aircraft had collided with him and torn off the tail unit, that aircraft’s propeller would have been badly bent and damaged the engine or caused it to be turned off. The pilot would have either baled out or would have glided down to a crash landing ( as Galland had had to do once) That aircraft would have shown up in German losses that day. Since there was no report of this, this must have been “friendly fire” both by process of elimination or as evidence shows in the interview. Galland behaved with typical generosity to Bader as he did a bit later to Bob Stanford Tuck. These bombing raids on France were of questionable value as any pilots who bailed out, ended up in POW camps. In the Battle of Britain , they had the chance to fight another day.
Adolf Galland was a great and brave fighter pilot but also had a lot of moral courage in sticking up for his professional values and not being a yes man. That is deserving of equal respect. He was an honest man and a realist. He is also well known in maintaining friendships with Allied pilots after the war. He had a definite sense of humour also. Goring tried to make Galland a scapegoat like any cowardly manager.
Great story, I believe Galland's story, legs and tobacco. propaganda, both great men. Bader did the right thing with Rudel. Dilip Sakar and Hugh Halliday ? Interesting historians, not famous, I want to know more about them !
